John Wanamaker Quotes

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Quality is easy to talk but hard to make.

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

We simply must do better.

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.

If you're just trying to get by, you're going to be left behind. The caliber of shows I'm on are incredible, and it makes me just want to raise that bar even more.

Good is not good, where better is expected

Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.

I am never sure that anything's good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

Good is not good when better is expected.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

Quality survives.

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.